Mars Hill College receives $43K biofuels grant

8:52 PM,
Feb. 1, 2013

Scott Pearson

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Mars Hill College wins $43K biofuels grant

MARS HILL - Mars Hill College has received a grant worth $43,750 from the Biofuels Center of North Carolina (www.biofuelscenter.org) to study site suitability for biofuel production in Western North Carolina.

The grant proposal, written by Scott Pearson, professor of biology, is titled "Modeling Site Suitability for Biofuels Production in Western North Carolina." Pearson's proposal was one of 21 submitted across the state and one of only four approved for funding. ...

According to Pearson, the grant project has at least three goals: to ...